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.W. H. OSTRANDER. REPEATING BRBBGH LOADING GUN.

No. 450,773. Patented Apr. 21,1891.

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RBPBATING BRBEGH LOADING GUN'.

MEE 'Stains ATENE 'Erica WILLIS H. osTRANDER, on MERCED,v ASSIGNOR 'ro y,ri-IE osTRANDER REPEAT- ING GUN COMPANY, OF SAN 1*RAl\l( `}VISCO CALIFORNIA` RfEPEATING BREECHQLOADNG GUN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 450,773, dated April 21., 1891.

Application filed June 26, 1890.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known'that I, WILLIs H. OSTRANDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Merced, Merced county, State of California,

have invented an Improvementin Repeating- Guns; and `I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear', and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to certain improvements in that class of weapons k'nown' as magazine-guns or repeaters, and itis especially applicable to shot-guns having two barrels upon a single stock.

It consists ofa stock having two barrels mounted thereon so as to slide forward and back and a connecting-rod actuated by the movementof these barrels, and a mechanism operated by Said rod, whereby loaded shells are carried from the magazine and introduced into the barrels of the gun,discharged shells being ejected by the same movement and the hammers drawn back into position for firing.

lt also consists in locking devices for the barrel and the hammers and a means'for operating said devices, also a means whereby either of the barrels may be loaded or operatedindependent of the other, and in certain details of construction. n

Referring to the accompanyingdrawings for a more complete explanation of my invention, Figure 1 is aA longitudinal vertical section taken'through one of the barrels and the actuating mechanism, showing the parts closed and in a normal position. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectionthrough Fig. 1. VFign is a plan View, with parts broken away to show the interior. Fig. 4 is a detail view of one the stops W.

A is'the stock of the gun. B is the front extension of said stock, called the fore-end, within which a pair of l barrels C is fitted to slide forward or back.

, L D is the casing within which the operating mechanism is contained.

E is the standing-breech against which the rear end of the barrels abut when they are closed and locked in position.

F is the locking-latch by which the barrels are held in place when closed. This latch engages a corresponding slot in the web between the barrels, and is held up bya spring serial No. 356,870.r or@ man.)

G. 'lhe front end of this latch is inclined or beveled, so that when the barrels are drawn backward they will easily depress the latch over it until the notch or channel arrives at the latch, when the latter will be forced upward by the spring, and thus lock the barrels securely in place. It will be manifest that two or more of these catches maybe arranged to operate simultaneously, so as to insure a stlrong and safe lock to hold the barrels in p ace.

'of a pivoted arm or lever H, which extends back .into the casing D, and its rear end is engagedby avertical rod or bar l, which ing, through which it passes.

has its frontend fulcrumed suitably to the casing orstock. It will be manifest that when this trigger is pulled backward and upward it will, through the connecting-rod l raise the rear end ofthe lever H, and thus depress the the locking-notch of the barrels.

The barrels are fitted to slide in guides upon the stock, and they have ribl between them which is engaged by the outwardly-projecting catch K upon the front end of, 'the connecting-rod L. This rod L is catch yKjs always in position to be engaged by the slot which connects it with the barrels. If itis desired at any time to disengage the barrels, it is done by pressing downward upon the connecting-rod L, when the barrels may be 'easily slipped out of the fore-end of .the stock. The rear end of the connecting-rod L having teeth upon its upper surface, and this rack-bar is guided so as to move horizontally anism.

O is a shaft journaled within the casing and having upon it the looselyturning pinions P, the teeth of which engage with the teeth of gages with a vertical rack Q and another horizontal rack R1, which latter moves above the pinion. i

by pressing'dow'n the spring G, and vwill slide front end of the latch F, disengaging it from a slot formed inthe The latch F is formed upon the front end projects up from the lower portion of the casy' The lower end of this barls connected with a trigger J, whichpressed upward by a.' spring M, so that thev o is pivot-ed to the front end of a rack-bar N,

within the casecontaining the operating mechthe rack N. Each of these piiions also en- IOO Each of the rack-bars Q carries a segment S, which is of such shape as to receive the rear end of the shell, and when the barrels C are moved forward they act, through the connecting-rod or link L and the rack-bar N, to rotate the pinions P, and by its engagement with 'the racks Q it will raise the latter, causing them to slide up inthe guides within which they travel, and thus the segments S are raised,carrying with them the shells from the magazine below the line of the barrels up to a point opposite the rear opened ends of the barrels, so that when the latter are drawn back again the front ends of the shells will enter the barrels, and when the latter are closed and locked in place the shells will be in position for tiring.

The slot in the barrels into which the lug K projects is long enough so that the barrels may be moved back far enough to enter the front ends of the shells into the rear ends of the barrels before the carriers S are acted upon by the racks and pinions, so as to commence their descent, and by the time this action takes place the front ends of the shells are securely supported within the barrels, so that they will be completely introduced by vthe completion of the rearward movement of the barrels, while the carriers S descend to their normal position beneath the magazines. These magazines are placed one beneath each barrel, and are designed to contain only two eXtra cartridges, so vthat when the gun has -proper time.

been loaded there willbe two cartridges in the barrels of the gun, and two more are introduced into the magazines beneath through gates or doors T on the sides of the stock. The-flanges of the shells travel up in slots in the vertical guides, which stand upon each side of the standing breech E, as shown.

U are pins, which project horizontally beneath each of the standing breeches, and these pins are pressed forward by springs V,

fso as to project slightly into the paths of the shells as they are moved upwardly by the car- Tiers S. The front ends of these pins are beveled so that when the upwardly-moving shell strikes the pin it will press it backward against thc spring V, and thus allow the shell t0 rise until it has passed the pin, when the spring V will force the pin out again just beneath the lower edgeof the fiange of the shell, and this'prevents it from moving downward when the carrier S begins to descend.

W W are other pins projecting just above the upper edges of the flanges of the shells when they are in position to enter the gun, and these pins prevent the shell from being forced upward and thrown out before the These pins are actuated by springs V similar to those which acluate the pins U.

Upon* the upper ends of the vertical rackbars Q arevl formed cams X, and the pins XV have projections, as shown at NV', which are engaged by the curved cam shapes X, so that when the rack-bar Q is being`moved upward by the action of the pinion P the cam X will withdraw the pin W, and this allows the discharged shell (which is withdrawn from the barrel of the gun by the forward movement of the barrels) to be forced upward and ejected by the upward movement of the loaded shell from themagazine below. As the cam X moves upward it allows the pin W to be again forced out by its spring V', so that by the time the leaded shell has reached the proper position to beintroduced into the barrel of the gun, this pin will be again projected to act as a stop and prevent the shell from being raised too high.

Y Y are the hammers, which are suitably fulcrumed withinthe case D and are acted upon by the mainsprings Z.

a are the triggers by which each of the hammers is disengaged, so. as to fire the eartridge in its barrel.

a' are the rear springs, which return the triggers after they are pulled. These triggers have the plates b projecting into the casing and fulerumed upon the pin c. Each hammer Y has the front or striking end'Y, and upon the opposite or rear end the hook Y2, which is engaged when the hammer has been drawn back by a corresponding notch b upon the plate b.

The hammers are withdrawn to the position \of full-cock by the action of the rack-barr R,

which carries pins d, projecting upon each side, and these pins, pressing upon the shank of the hammer, as plainly' shown in Fig. 1, will force the hammer back until the hook portion Y2 is engaged by the notch b', and is thus held in position.

e is a safety-hook fulcrumed in the upper part of the case and acted upon by the spring f, which causes it to engage with a corresponding notch on the upper front end of the hammer, as shown in Fig. l,and this prevents the gun from being discharged as long as this engagement continues. Vhen the hammer is in its forward position, the hook e isheld up by means of aslidingbar g, having a latch upon its front end which engages a corresponding latch at the rear end of the leverarmfe, which carries the latch e. The bar g is forced forward, so as to engage the rear of the lever-arm e', by a spring h. It is forced backward against its spring, so as to release the rear end of the lever e', by thev beveled rear end R of the rack-bar R, this movement taking place when the rack-bar R is moved backward during the forward movement of the barrels for loading the gun and simultaneously with the drawing back of the Vhammer Y. The rear end R of the rack-bar R engaging the sliding latch-bar g moves it backward until it releases the lever-arm e', and the pressure of the springf upon this lever-arm throws the hook e down upon the top of the hammer Y, so that when the latter' has been drawn back sufficiently for the hook Y2 at its rear end to be engaged by the notch b' of the trigger the hook e will also engage the notch in the ham mcr, and thus lock it, so that the gun cannot be tired without Iirst disengaging this hook. This makes the gun perfeetly safe at all times after it is loaded until it is desired to fire it.

The safety-hook e is disengaged by pressing down upon the button z' on the top of the stock, and this button acts upon the rear end of the lever e', and this raises the hook e out of the notch in the hammer, so as to release the latter. When this is done theengagingnotch at the rear end of thelever e is brought into position, so that the corresponding latch on the sliding bar g will be forced forward by its actuating-spring h and will engage the lever e', and thus hold it up out of engagement with the hammer. It will be manifest that veither one of the hammers may thus be disengaged for firing purposes, and either one of them may be again `locked without operating the gun-barrels and loading mechanism bysimply withdrawing the sliding bar g until the notch is released and the hook c allowed-to again engage with the hammer.

The sliding bars g are withdrawn to disengage them from the levers e by means of the thumb-pieces j, which project up through the stock just behind the thumb-pieces z', as

shown. When the hammer falls, it strikes upon the rear end of the firing-pin k, this tiring-pinv being so shaped that its front end will be forced against the primer in the shell; so as to discharge the latter and fire the gun. The tiring-pin is retracted whenever released by a spring Z, which acts upon it for this purose. p Itl it is desired to load but a single barrel of the gun in case of only one discharge having taken place, this is effected by temporarily disengaging the pinion P of the barrel which is not to be loaded from the rack-bar N. As the two pinions P turn loosely upon the shaft 0,-they may be moved longitudinally upon the shaft far enough to disengage either of them from the rack-bar N. This rack-bar is suiciently wide to engage both the pinions when in their normal position; but either of them may be moved along the shaft suf! ciently to disengage them from the rackbar, and when one is thus disengaged the movement of the barrels, which has been previously described, will only cause the rackbar to act upon the pinion and mechanism of the other barrel. This movement for each pinion is eected by means of a clutch-lever m, having its rear end fulcrumed within the casing D, and its front. end projecting with a fork which engages a corresponding groove or channel in the pinion-hub. (Shown ata.) Either of the levers m is moved so as to force its pinion outwardly by means of a bell-crank lever 0 upon the vertical shaft p, and this shaft has the portion of Ithe lever upon its upper end so arranged as to be engaged by a lever q,which is pivoted upon the top of the gunstock, so as to be readily moved about its pivot to either one side or the other.

When moved in one direction, one of the pinwhich hold its flange,

ions l is disengaged from the rack-bar N, and when moved in the opposite direction the ,other pinion will be disengaged. Both pinions are returned into engagement by springs,

which act to force them back into place as l while the others will remain unmoved. VThe loaded shell which is not moved is simply held in its v place by. the guides and stops so that the barrels may easily be moved outa nd backward again withoutdisturbing this shell.

Having thus described I claim as new, ters. Patent, is-

1. In a gun, the barrels sliding upon the fore-.end of the stock, the magazines seated beneath the rear ends of the barrels, a vertically-moving carrier, and the guides within which the fiange of the shell travels, in combination with a rotary pinion, a rack-bar connected-with the sliding barrels and engaging said pinion, and a vertically-moving rack-bar to which the carrier' is attached and by which it is raised and depressed, substantially as herein described.

2. A epeatinggun, consisting of` a stock," onelor more barrels adapted to slide forward and' back in guides upon the fore-end of said stock, a horizontally-moving rack-bar and a link connecting said rack-,bar with the movmy invention, what and desire to secure by Leting barrel, a pinion journaled Within the` stock and engaging the sliding rack-bar, a second rack-bar engaging the pinion and moving in vertical guides, a magazine situated beneath the rear end ot'- the barrel, and a carrier adapted to receive the shell within the magazine, said carrier being attached to the vertically-moving rack-bar, so that in its upward movement it will raise the shell to a position opposite the rear end of the barrel. substan tially as herein described. V

3. In a repeating-gun, a stock, one or more barrels adapted to slide forward and back, a magazine situated beneath the rear end of the barrel, a rack-bar connected by a link with the sliding barrel, a pinion journaled in the stock and engaged by said rack-bar so as to be rotated by the reciprocation of thelatter, a vertical rack-bar actuated by the pinion,- and a carrier fixed to the vertically-moving rackbar and adapted to raise a cartridge from the magazine to a point opposite the rear end of the barrel, in combination with guides within which the ilange of the rear end of the shell travels, and spring-actuated stop-pins, whereby the shell is held after having been lifted to its position ready to enter the barrel, substantially as herein described.

4. The vertically-moving carrier, in combiroo - 'rib ofthe sliding barrel and engaged by said one or more barrels sliding in' guides uponthe fore-end of said stock, a horizontally-moving rack-bar, a pinion journaled in the stock engaged by said rack-bar, and operating m echanism moved by said pinion, in combination,

with a link extending from the front end of the rack-bar, a spring whereby the front end of said link is raised, a lugr fixed upon the front end-of the link, and a slot formed in the lug, so that the movement of the barrel is Vcommunicated to the sliding rack-bar, substantially as herein described.

6. A repeating-gun consisting of the stock,

one or more barrels sliding in guides upon the fore-end of said stock, a pinion and rack-bars connected with the barrel and actuated by the forward and backward movements of said barrel, a spring-actuated locking-catch F, and a rod I, engaging said catch and trigger J for operating said rod, whereby said catch .may be disengaged and the barrel released, substantially as herein described.

one or more barrels sliding in guides u-pon the fore-end of said stock, a horizontally-moving rack-bar connected with and actuated bysaid barrel, a pinion journaled within the stock and engaging said rack-bar, a vertically-moving rack-bar engaging said pinion and having the cartridgecarrier xed toit, and a second horizontally-moving rack-bar engaging the pinion having the lug or pin projecting from it, in combination with the hammer f nl# crumed within the casing, so as to be engaged by the lug upon the rack-bar when the latter is moved backwardl y, the trigger, and notched trigger-blade adapted to engage and hold the hammer when it is withdrawn, substantially as herein described.

8. The hammer fulcrumed within the cas- -ing and the horizontally-moving rack-bar for actuating the same, in, combination with a notched trigger-blade within the lower part of the casing, having a notch engaged by the hammer when the latter is drawn back, and a. safety-catch in the upper part of the casing in the path of the hammer and adapted to engage a notch therein to hold the hammer independently of the trigger-blade, subst-antially. as herein described.

9. The combination, with the hammer and its actuating mechanism, of the spring-actuated catch in the path of the hammer for holding the latter independently of the trigger, a sliding locking-plate g, engaging the arm of the spring-actuated catch out of engagement with the hammer, a thumb-piece ,on the sliding plate, and a thumb-piece on thc catch, substantially as and for the purpose described. p

l0. The sliding barrel moving in guides upon the fore-end of the stock, a rack-bar connected by alink with said barrel, a pinion journaled within the stock and engaged by said rack-bar, a second rack-bar engaging the pinion moving horizontally and having alug which engages the hammer and forces it backward when the barrels are moved so as to rotate the pinion, aspring-actuated safety-catch, a sliding latch by which said catch is held out of engagement with the hammer, and an inclined face R at the rear of the rack-bar,

adapted to force the locking-slide backward' -and disengage it from the safety-catch, substantially as herein described.

7. A repeating-gun consisting of a stock,

1l. A magazine-gun consisting of a pair of barrels moving in guides upon lthe fore-end of the gunstock, horizontally-moving rackbars connected by links with each of the barrels, corresponding pinions jou rnaled loosely upon the shaft within the stock and engaged by said rack-bars, loading mechanisms actuated by said pinions to load both vbarrels simultaneously, clutch-levers engaging each of the pinions, andfan'arm or lever operatively connected to said clutch levers, whereby either pinion may be thrown out of engagement with the actuating rack-bar and the mechanism actuated by said pinion remain stationary while the other is operated, substantially as herein described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand. l

f XVILLIS Il. OSTRANDER..

Witnesses:

F. W. Egan, S. H. NoURsE.

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